ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,293, issued on May 26, was assigned to SB Technology Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Geophysical field sensing-based navigation" was invented by Kimberly Margaret Moore (Redwood City, Calif.), Regupathi Angappan (Baltimore) and Alexander James McNeil (Kalispell, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example computer-implemented methods and systems for estimating geophysical fields for magnetic navigation. One example computer-implemented method includes storing, at a navigation object, an offline baseline estimation model. Online geophysical field model data not stored on the navigation object are received at various times at the navigation o...